Morningstar’s director of institutional insights, Lindsey Stewart, discusses the key takeaways from Morningstar’s Asset Owners Perspectives Survey 2026, its fifth annual survey of institutional investors’ priorities and perspectives

LBP AM chief investment officer Guillaume Lasserre dispels the notion that investing in the climate transition will negatively impact performance.

FinCity.Tokyo’s executive director Tokio Morita discusses Tokyo’s role in the evolution of green and transition financing, and the growing Japan-UK collaboration in mobilising finance for a net-zero future.

Bundling linked topics makes engagement smoother and helps avoid unintended consequences, explains Carlota Garcia-Manas, head of climate transition and ESG engagement at Royal London Asset Management.

Asset-level data must be paired with detailed corporate hierarchy and ownership information to reveal the flow of impacts within and between companies, write S&P Global’s Rick Lord, Kuntal Singh and Bob MacKnight.

Morningstar Sustainalytics’ Benjamin Schofield and Alicia White describe the potential impact of SFDR 2.0 proposals on transition funds.